Friday, February 18, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section B • Page 3
'Hawks prepare for Big 12
Track team to hold informal invitational
By Sarah Warren
By Sarah Warren
sports@kansas.com
Kansan sportswriter
It's a dress-down day for the Kansas track and field team.
The Pre-Conference Invitational, a sort of casual dress rehearsal for next week's Big 12 Indoor Championships, will be at 5 today at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
"This week will be very informal." coach Gary Schwartz said. "If you want to call it a tune-up or a maintenance thing, you can."
So informal, in fact, teams have forscribed to R.S.V.P.
"At this point, I'm not sure who's
showing up." Schwartz said.
Emporia State, Pittsburg State, Fort Hays State, Kansas State, Wichita State and the University of Missouri-Kansas City were expected at the invitational until one team jumped ship to have a little party of its own.
"We had the same meet last year, but K-State is holding a meet this same weekend," junior Charlie Gruber said. "So I don't know how [competitive] this meet will be."
As of yesterday, the attendees for the invitational were Emporia State, UMKC, Cloud County Community College and Missouri. The University of Tulsa also is sending athletes to the event, although they will compete unattached.
The party-poopers could have been turned off by the Jayhawks' strong showing at last weekend's
'Husker Invitational.
In Lincoln, juniors Andrea Branson, women's pole vault, and Charlie Gruber, men's mile, captured first-place finishes in their respective events, with Branson tying the Bob DeVaney Sports Complex record held by current Kansas assistant coach Candace Mason. Junior Jabari Wamble finished second in the 400-meter dash.
Sophomore Ryan Speers, who placed seventh in shot put in Nebraska, said Kansas' recent performances were all the more reason tonight's meet could turn into a three-hour bash at the visiting teams' expense.
"I think for a while people didn't care because we weren't good enough, and now that we're having some success, they're starting to train hard," Speers said.
Women golfers to take on Indiana
By Michael Terry
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
When Kansas women's golf coach Nicole Hollingsworth reaches the first hole at this weekend's match against Indiana University in Tampa, Fla., she'll see a familiar face — her former coach.
Hollingsworth played for Sam Carmichael, women's golf coach for the Indiana Hoosiers, from 1992-95, helping them win two Big 10 championships and earn four automatic berths into the NCAA golf finals.
This is Hollingsworth's first year coaching at Kansas, and she, as well as the team, is looking forward to the challenge of facing off against the Hoosiers.
"Indiana is one of the top programs in the county, and it's going
to be really fun because I think we have a shot to beat them," Hollingsworth said. "Considering the conditions we've been practicing in over the last few weeks, I've been pleased with how our team has progressed."
Of the four and one-half rounds of the golf the Jayhawks have been able to play during the last two weeks, only one and one-half were in good weather, but she said that should not affect the team's performance this weekend.
For one Jayhawk in particular, getting geared up to play this weekend won't be a problem.
"This will be a chance for our team to get out into the warm weather and play some tough competition to help gear us up for the spring schedule," Hollingsworth said.
man, will be playing in her first match since walking on to the team in 1998.
"I'm really excited to be going to my first tournament," Strauba said. "It's always been a dream of mine, and now I have
Kristy Straub, Great Bend fresh
the chance. We've all worked hard, and now we need to go out and play to our potential and win."
Straub isn't the only Jayhawk excited to get the season started. Ashely Bishop, Franklin, Ind., junior, said that she was ready to face the competition.
"One of our main goals is going to be to get in as much practice as possible."Bishop said.
Bishop said that it would be nice to win this match for the coach.
Softball players work on basics for tournament
The Kansas softball team used this week to work on the little things — particularly defense.
Rebecca Barkow
sports @kansan.com
Kansan Sportswriter
Rebecca Barlow
The Javahwks went 1-4 in their opening weekend, including losses to No.3 Fresno State 10-0 and No.9 Arizona State 9-0. However, they hope the little things, the fundamentals, will help them be successful this weekend as they get ready for the Triangle Classic Tournament in Raleigh, N.C., where they will play Boston, Campbell and Liberty universities.
"I think it [practice] is a lot more intense since our performance last weekend," sophomore Christi Mussel said. "The things we did wrong were basic fundamentals. We know we can play a lot better."
Kansas coach Tracy Bunge said she believed the losses showed her team how it needed to play in the future.
"It woke them up a lot," Bunge said. "They needed to realize they just can't show up. They need to take each opponent seriously and play intensively."
Musser agreed that the losses were a wake-up call.
"We had expectations coming into the tournament," she said. "We can't go into anything thinking we are going to win since we worked hard."
The competition last weekend was the best Kansas will face all season. The Triangle Classic should provide some relief.
Bunge said this weekend the Jayhawks would be playing teams that had the same weather problems
— too little sunshine and not enough warm weather — as Kansas, which allows for a more even playing field.
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